Design And ReuseDesign And ReuseDesign And Reuse _____ D&R NEWS LETTER WEEK 28, 2003 Hello to all members of the IP/SOC community D&R has been quite busy like all of us over the DAC period. Time to come back to you ÿ 1. Welcome to our new partners of the month ÿ ÿ ÿ Altera ÿ ÿ ÿ Astro Semiconductor ÿ ÿ ÿ Intronic Semiconductor PLD Application ÿ ÿ ÿ Rambus Silicon Cores - a Div. of Silicon Interfaces ÿ ÿ ÿ Soft Mixed Signal Xelic and to our partners that renewed this month their partnership: ÿ ÿ ÿ Dolphin Integration ÿ ÿ ÿ Eureka Technology ÿ ÿ ÿ Evatronix Global UniChip ÿ ÿ ÿ Improv Systems Innovative Semiconductors ÿ ÿ ÿ LSI Design and Integration (LDIC) M2000 Macrocad Mentor Graphics Newlogic Sarnoff Siworks SuperH Telecom Italia LAB - System On Chip Division Vinchip Systems Western Design Center Wipro Technologies Virtual Silicon Xignal Technologies Xylon 2. D&R Gateway The activity of the gateway is increasing and 27 IP provider private catalogs are holdÿ in this gateway for importingÿ data in large intranet corporations and all the major playersÿ participate actively in this gateway initiative (See: D&R Creates Intellectual Property Packaging and Delivery Platform for Alcatel - May. 27, 2003) If you are an IP provider not yet listed in the gateway and need to holdÿ an intranet catalog please contact us. Should you need to create any SOC product intranet resource catalog for a client, D&R is more than eager to make you profit from its experience and create such a catalog. Similarly if you are a large company and would like to display within your company firewall an IP catalogÿ for your designers D&R will offer you this service and take care of the update. For handling such an activity some issues have to be solved across the whole IP provider community One of theseÿ issues deals with proper IP identifiers as well as IP version id. You may understand that D&R has to be very rigorous and very accurate about forwarding data as theÿ IP visibility in intranet companies is affected. D&R is providing version support and archive features when publishing the IPs. Thus we urgently ask to theÿ provider to fill in in addition to a short description the exact identifier of theirÿ IP and possibly the version id. Of course for customers for whomÿ D&R provides associated delivery platform services this is absolutely mandatory. A second topic we have to address again and again is the format issues. Working very closely with 4 very large companies and having to perform multiple bridging, D&R is de facto daily re visiting the format issue and we notice a serious trend in creating accurate catalogs per sector. For provider using D&R gateway, the set of formats evolving permanently according to major player requests is made available on the gateway As D&R mission is to share info among this community, D&R will hold a seminar for the gateway user and all D&R partners before the November workshop of Grenoble and one if the topics will beÿ the publishing policy, catalog bridging or mirroring and the formatÿ issue. Note that for holding this IP gateway powerful features forÿ handling catalog version support, importing and merging XML catalog data are required. IPMS (IP Manager Series) the D&R software underlying this gateway is becoming more and more powerful for mirroring provider catalog within intranet environment and these features will be commented in this seminar. 3. D&R e software After DAC, D&R is delivering a majorÿ release ofÿ its e-software (IP Manager Series and eDesign Manager) In addition to the catalog version import / export features mentioned above which is a strong point of its technology, innovative environment are offered for user and customer support. Note also that for its packaging and delivery platform handling both external IPs and internal IPs is now mastered by tuning the level of description, the version support features and differentiated Download features. This technologyÿ willÿ be introduced in details in the November seminar. 4. Workshop on IP based SOC Design 2003 The workshop hold in November will be the hot event of the year in the IP SOC field. In addition to the contest for winning the best prize in this workshop, the Best Japanese design prize sponsored by Nikkei will also be delivered ATTENTION Live presentations for 6 months on D&R web site of the hottest sessions are planned. Up to now are considered special sessions/panels on verification and best IP/SOC prizeÿ sessions. If your company wishes to sponsor such an on line event please contact us promptly ( mktg@design-reuse.com ) For all of you, do not forget to prepare your contributions and if your are a company book your exhibition slot , only some few slots stay available Important Dates Deadline for submission of executive summary ÿ ÿÿ September 1, 2003 Notification of acceptance September 29, 2003 Final Version of the manuscript October 20, 2003 Workshop November 13-14, 2003 More information : Best Regards Gabriele Saucier Philippe Coeurdevey _____ AROUND WWW.DESIGN-REUSE.COM SPONSOR MESSAGE True Circuits, Inc. offers a complete family of innovative, standardized and silicon proven PLL hard macros with LockNow! TM Technology for very fast locking with minimal frequency overshoot. 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